Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.